Akua Naru — the world is listening
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the world is listening Akua Naru03:44
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The World Is Listening Lyrics[Verse 1: Akua Naru] Flash, flash, flashback, '88, copped my first tape Third Grade, young girl banking Roxanne Shante Around my way, Claude McKay, disarray Langstons of dark hues get bruised, stored away, hey Caught in cage, fought in the maze, gave up And now I got dreams of being live on stage, what Turn up the volume, uh, me and my cousin doin' the wop Dreaming 'bout the Salt-N-Pepa haircut Speakers bump light as the rock pumps The rhythm of my next double-dutch jump, what you want? At once, Pecola Breedloves, uh, we dreamed of ourselves Knew when Latifah showed us what a queen was I went from invisible to seen to on the Smooth tip Sweet Tee, to follow Monie in the Middle on the scene Saw them, saw myself, vowed to rock mics when I'm older Pick up a pen, and like Antoinette (Lights out, party's over) [Chorus: Akua Naru] This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D For those never seen On the search for female emcees The microphone fiends [Verse 2: Akua Naru] Stomped in the '90s, after school you could find me In the backyard begging for a beat box, rhymin' U-N-I-T-Y and Heather B Blues Frame the news of the death of Phyllis Hymen, I rap to keep from crying Taking Mine, now I'm the Bo$$, recipe for a show They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo Then on the Blackstreet, Ill Na Na get me home, though I rap along to every song and ain't no playing with my Yo-Yo Check, how I hit every note, though Even sung along to patois like in the joint she did with Patra (I'm on a romantic call, talkin' to my baby down ah mi yaad) Uh, blank page callin', I fantasized a crowd "Yes, ya'll"in' Nonchalantly in the trees at five o'clock in the morning Sported the Kim hardcore wig, then came Lauryn She showed me the beauty and the natural cut Amplified my Rage, growing out my afro puffs [Chorus: Akua Naru] This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D For those never seen On the search for female emcees The microphone fiends [Verse 3: Akua Naru] Yo, new millennium came of age while things stayed the same Media forms changed, new name from What? What? to Jean Grae We bootlegged the bootleg, facebook or MySpace Put away cassette, VHS tapes in vinyl crates Fast forward album release dates Hip-hopalizing what we buy, how we objectify in these days Tell me, what's the plight of a female emcee's fate? Or what's the worth of a woman's story to a DJ? Uh Downloadin' everyone and all my heroes seemingly gone Search and found Lauryn Hill Unplugged, guess I lost one Some come and go, self-labeled bitch and ho And heretic of discourse, I turn off the radio I can't relate, nor can I hate For the ways we negotiate the sexist spaces that we navigate I stay reppin', haunted by the ghost of hip hop's crescent It seems (Fantasy's what people want reality to be) [Chorus: Akua Naru] This is for Latifah, for Lyte, for Shante Bahamadia, Lauryn Hill, Heather B, for Jean Grae E-V-E, Nikki D, Salt-N-Pepa, even me Apani B, for Missy, for Kim, and Foxy This is for, Rah Digga, Rage, Left Eye, for Yo-Yo Paula Perry, Nonchalant, Da Brat, for Jane Doe Rage, Mystic, BO$$, Sparky D For those never seen On the search for female emcees The microphone fiends [Outro: Akua Naru] The world is listenin' The world is listenin' The world is listenin'1
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